Alive; living; with life.

Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh may be from a contusion.

The state or quality of being livid.

Lividity.

The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.

In a living state.

The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

A genus of fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia.

A native or an inhabitant of Livonia; the language (allied to the Finnish) of the Livonians.

Malignity.

A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.

A French money of account, afterward a silver coin equal to 20 sous. It is not now in use, having been superseded by the franc.

Impregnated with, or consisting of, alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; impregnated with a salt or salts like a lixivium.

To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.

Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance from one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.

See Lixivial.

Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.

A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.

2d pers. sing. pres. of Lige, to lie, to tell lies, -- contracted for ligest.

The American white mullet (Mugil curema).

Any of several mostly tropical marine scopeloid fish of the family Synodontidae having large mouths in lizardlike heads, especially the inshore lizardfish (Synodus foetens syn. Synodus poeyi) of Mideastern and Southern United States and West Indies; -- sometimes called sand pike.

A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (Saururus cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name.

A South American ruminant (Auchenia llama), allied to the camels, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes, and is also kept on some ranches in the United States.

One of the inhabitants of the llanos of South America.

An extensive plain with or without vegetation.

An association of underwriters and others in London, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

A mountain in Argentina and Chile, 22,057 feet high.

the sea personified, father of Manawydan; corresponds to the Irish Ler.

Look; see; behold; observe.

Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (Nemachilus barbatulus) is used as a food fish.

To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon.

Supporting a load{10} from parts of a structure above; as, a load-bearing wall.

The act or process of disconnecting the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply.

containing as much or as many as is possible; -- of containers, vehicles, trays, etc.; as, a tray loaded with dishes

One who, or that which, loads; a mechanical contrivance for loading, as a gun.

The act of putting a load on or into.

A large quantity; a lot; as, loads of fun.

To spend in idleness; -- with away; as, to loaf time away.

One who loafs; a lazy lounger.

having no employment; being idle intentionally.

To cover, smear, or fill with loam.

having no loam; -- of soil; as, a stony loamless yard. Contrasted with loamy.

Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.

To lend; -- sometimes with out.

Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.

a word that is composed of parts from different languages; e.g. monolingual has a Greek prefix and a Latin root.

someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters.

An open space between cultivated fields through which cattle are driven, and where the cows are sometimes milked; also, a lane.

A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.

a word borrowed from another language; e.g. blitz is a German word borrowed into modern English.

any of various perennial South American plants of the genus Loasa having stinging hairs and showy white or yellow or reddish-orange flowers.

A natural family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and Southern Arabia.

Hateful; odious; disliked.

To feel disgust or nausea.

One who loathes.

Full of loathing; hating; abhorring.

Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.

With loathing.

Loathsomeness.

Unwillingly; reluctantly.

Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting; as, a loathsome disease.

Loathsome.

pl. of Loaf.

The act of lobbing; an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net.

Of or pertaining to a lobe; characterized by, or like, a lobe or lobes.

Consisting of, or having, lobes; lobed; as, a lobate leaf.

As a lobe; so as to make a lobe; in a lobate manner.

Like a lob; consisting of lobs.

To urge the adoption or passage of by soliciting members of a legislative body; as, to lobby a bill; -- also used with the legislators as object; as, to lobby the state legislatuire for protection.

A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.

A dull, sluggish person; a lubber; a lob.

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form A rounded projection or division of a leaf. A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot. A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of Brain. The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.

Lobiped.

surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (such as the lung or brain).

Having lobes; lobate.

A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.

A small lobe; a lobule.

A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. Lobelia cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red color of its flowers.

A natural family of plants not recognized in all classification systems; in some classifications lobeliaceous plants are included in family Campanulaceae.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

Having lobate toes, as a coot.

Gruel; porridge; -- so called among seamen.

An order of Rhizopoda, in which the pseudopodia are thick and irregular in form, as in the Am/ba.

The type genus of the Lobotidae.

A natural family of fishes including the tripletails.

The surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain, by cutting into the brain.

A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.

See Lopsided.

A prison.

Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (Homarus Americanus), and the European lobster (Homarus vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called lobsters.

a device used to trap lobsters, consisting of a semi-cylindrical structure made of wooden slats, with openings formed of funnel-shaped nets allowing lobsters to enter, but impeding their exit. It is also called a lobster trap.

same as lobster pot.

Of or pertaining to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War in America; -- so called because of their red coats.

A British soldier in the 1700's; -- so-called because of his red coat, esp. during the American Revolutionary War.

a dish of lobster meat cooked with a rich creamy wine sauce, stuffed back into the lobster shell, sprinkled with grated cheese, and browned.

Like a lobule; pertaining to a lobule or lobules.

the property of having lobules.

Made up of, or divided into, lobules; as, a lobulated gland.

A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe.

A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule.

The lugworm.

A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.

A place, spot, or location.

Same as localization.

Same as localize.

The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.

The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.

Act of localizing, or state of being localized.

To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.

confined or restricted to a particular location; as, the localized infection formed a definite abscess. Contrasted with disseminated or systemic.

With respect to place; in place; as, to be locally separated or distant.

To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle; as, to locate in Seattle.

situated in a particular spot or position; as, valuable centrally located urban land.

the act of putting something in a certain place or location.

The act or process of locating.

Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun. The locative case.

One who locates, or is entitled to locate, land or a mining claim.

Divided into secondary compartments or cells, as where one cavity is separated into several smaller ones.